Symbiotic Symbiotic

Relationships QuizRelationships Quiz

Unit 3: Interdependence – Unit 3: Interdependence – The Web of LifeThe Web of Life

Question 1Question 1Which of the following is true?Which of the following is true?

A. Prey are animals A. Prey are animals that hunt and eat that hunt and eat other animals.other animals.

C. Consumers make C. Consumers make their own food their own food through a through a process called process called photosynthesis.photosynthesis.

B. Carnivores eat B. Carnivores eat plants. plants. Herbivores eats Herbivores eats animals. animals.

D. Herbivores eat D. Herbivores eat plants. plants. Carnivores eats Carnivores eats animals. animals.

Question 2Question 2 Which of the following is an Which of the following is an example of a example of a parasite/hostparasite/host relationship?relationship?

A. clownfish lives A. clownfish lives among the forest among the forest of tentacles of an of tentacles of an anemone and is anemone and is protected from protected from potential potential predators predators

C. A bear eats a fish.C. A bear eats a fish.

B. cleaners eat B. cleaners eat insect pests insect pests from the skin of from the skin of animals animals

D. spider mites suck D. spider mites suck sugar from sugar from plants plants

A. Birds eat berries and A. Birds eat berries and the plant benefits the plant benefits by the dispersal of by the dispersal of it seeds.it seeds.

C. An anole eats C. An anole eats insects. insects.

B. A remora attaches B. A remora attaches itself to the itself to the underside of a underside of a shark and feeds shark and feeds upon leftovers from upon leftovers from shark’s meals. shark’s meals.

D. Venus flytrap plant D. Venus flytrap plant eats insects with eats insects with their leaves.their leaves.

Question 3Question 3Which of the following is an Which of the following is an example of a example of a commensalcommensal relationship?relationship?

Question 4Question 4 Which of the following is an Which of the following is an example of a example of a mutualmutual relationship?relationship?

A. Herbivores such as A. Herbivores such as cows, sheep, deer, cows, sheep, deer, horses and rabbits horses and rabbits depend on bacteria depend on bacteria that live in their that live in their stomachs to break stomachs to break down the plant down the plant material.material.

C. fleas that live in a C. fleas that live in a host animal's fur host animal's fur

B. egrets hunt for B. egrets hunt for insects near a insects near a grazing animal's grazing animal's mouth mouth

D. mosquitoes feeding D. mosquitoes feeding on a humanon a human

Question 5Question 5 What do you call an animal that eats What do you call an animal that eats another animal?another animal?

A. producer A. producer

C. hostC. host

B. predator B. predator

D. prey D. prey

Question 6Question 6What do we call the relationship in which What do we call the relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is one organism benefits and the other is harmed but usually not killed?harmed but usually not killed?

A. A. commensalismcommensalism

C. C. predationpredation

B. B. mutualismmutualism

D. D. parasitismparasitism

Question 7Question 7 Which of the following is not a symbiotic Which of the following is not a symbiotic

relationship?relationship?

A. A. mutualismmutualism

C. C. predationpredation

B. B. ParasitismParasitism

D. D. commensalismcommensalism

Bonus QuestionBonus QuestionWhich of the following is NOT a Which of the following is NOT a

commensalcommensal relationship? relationship?

A. birds that lives A. birds that lives in holes in trees in holes in trees

C. bees and C. bees and hummingbirds hummingbirds gather nectar gather nectar and spread and spread pollen pollen

B. a shrimp riding B. a shrimp riding on a sea slugs on a sea slugs

D. barnacles attach D. barnacles attach to shells or to shells or whales whales

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KeyKey

1) D1) D 2) D2) D 3) B3) B 4) A4) A 5) B5) B 6) D6) D 7) C7) C